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By Elizabeth Maloney, MD A recent article in the Minnesota Star-Tribune discussed one legislator’s struggle with Lyme disease (“Retiring legislator continues to serve by telling his story.” And while coverage of tick-borne diseases is welcome, it is discouraging to know that this... Read More »

The Tick-Borne Disease Working Group will present its first report to Congress in December 2018. The federal panel has completed its draft report, which now goes to various government agencies for review. Anything more than copy edits will come back to the Working Group and... Read More »

Newsweek, July 26, 2018 By Abbey Interrante Tick-borne diseases may continue to get worse in the United States, public health officials say. A new paper from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) reveals that diseases from ticks could become more... Read More »

The following is a press release from the National Institutes of Health, July 25, 2018. LymeDisease.org does not necessarily agree with all the points mentioned here. The incidence of tick-borne infections in the United States has risen significantly within the past decade. It is... Read More »

Here’s what we live-tweeted during the July 24 meeting of the federal Tick-Borne Disease Working Group. Read More »

A team of University of Maine researchers has been awarded $1.17 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to develop and test land management practices to protect Maine forest workers from exposure to tick-borne diseases. The three-year project, “Developing adaptive forest... Read More »

News release from Bay Area Lyme Foundation. July 12, 2018: Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a leading nonprofit funder of innovative Lyme disease research in the U.S., today announced the results of the first citizen-scientist study to evaluate the prevalence of disease-carrying ticks... Read More »

Press release from FDA, July 10, 2018. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today is requiring safety labeling changes for a class of antibiotics called fluoroquinolones to strengthen the warnings about the risks of mental health side effects and serious blood sugar... Read More »

From the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, July 9, 2018: In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low numbers of resident fox, opossum, and raccoons. These are among the findings from an analysis of 19... Read More »